LINK : http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-211-sabine-hossenfelder-on-the-case-against-beauty-in-phy.html
TYPE : podcast
DATE : 12018-07-03
TAGS : philosophy, science
QOTE : 'It hit me pretty hard. Some of this stuff is really philosophically potent in a way that's easy to overlook.' - faun
SEEN : true
REVI : true
HACKETY HACK
PERS : cblgh
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://vimeo.com/5047563
TYPE : lecture
DATE : 12018-07-03
TAGS : code
QOTE : 'It's super inspiring in general, but he also presents a game he made to teach programming without the players realizing until it's too late and they're already wizards' - cblgh
SEEN : true
FOR AND AGAINST EDU
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/bryan-caplan-case-for-and-against-education/
TYPE : podcast
DATE : 12018-07-03
TAGS : philosophy
NOTE : Testing anti school sentiments
SEEN : false
OCCAM'S RAZOR
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
LINK : http://critical-gaming.com/blog/2008/8/5/folded-level-design.html
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-03
TAGS : gamedev, inspiration
QOTE : 'I want to focus on a type of level design that is like climbing a tall tree to rescue a cat; going one way provides one kind of challenge (ie. climbing a tree), and getting back is a different challenge that builds upon the original challenge by adding a layer of depth/complexity (ie. climbing down a tree with a cat in one hand). I call this kind of level design folded level design.'
SEEN : false
STEAM CONTROLLER LARS
LINK : https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20170125/289904/The_Steam_Controller_Configurators_Untapped_Power.php
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-03
TAGS : gamedev
SEEN : true
COST DISEASE
LINK : http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-03
SEEN : false
RV BATTERY RANT
LINK : https://handybobsolar.wordpress.com/the-rv-battery-charging-puzzle-2/
LINK : http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-03
TAGS : philosohpy
SEEN : false
NEWCOMB'S PARADOX
PERS : faun
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb's_paradox
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-04
TAGS : philosohpy, paradox
SEEN : true
REVI : true
GNOSTICISM
PERS : faun
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-04
TAGS : philosohpy
SEEN : true
REVI : true
KOAN
PERS : faun
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : term
DATE : 12018-07-04
QOTE : "A paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment."
- The good quote is "The proper exchange of ideas between free individuals keeps tyranny at bay."
- However media centralization and widely popular material escapism distorts societal discourse.
- And the related quote is: '...the problem with hierarchies is that people stack up at the bottom and that they tilt toward tyranny across time'.
- Fuller context: "If you're going to values some things more than others then hierarchies are inevitable. You have to value some things more than others or you don't have anything valuable." "Like beauty or strength or something." "Or competence. ...whatever it happens to be. The ability to play the flute. It doesn't matter what it is. Obviously if you value music you are going to value some musicians more than others because some are better. So you have to value things in order to more forward in life, and you have to value things in order to have something valuable to produce. But if you play out the value in a social landscape you produce a hierarchy. The problem with producing a hierarchy is that a small number of people are going to be more successful than the majority, and a very large number of people are not going to be successful at all - at that particular thing. It's inevitable.
- ...So you say 'we have to put up with that because we need to pursue things of value'. OK fine, so that is the right wing perspective - the hierarchies are justifiable and necessary.
- The left wing perspective is 'yeah but wait a minute, the problem with hierarchies is that people stack up at the bottom and that they tilt toward tyranny across time' and that's also true.
- You need that dialect in society between the right wing that says you know 'we need the hierarchies and they are useful and you should be grateful for them, they structure you and give you form and provide value'
- and the left that says 'yeah but they exclude people, people stack up at the bottom and that is dangerous to the hierarchy itself, it means that people might not have opportunity' and you have to say yes to that (too).
- The problem comes -and this is the situation we are in right now- where the radical left-ists (and this is mostly a problem that really permeates the Universities) say 'Yeah but all hierarchies are just tyrannical power', it's like oh no their not. Hierarchies are based on competence in a functioning society and mostly our society functions... ...That doesn't mean that hierarchies don't tilt toward self interest and tyranny across time but that's a bad thing. Even a bad thing from a conservative perspective. There's room for the left because the poor will always be with us and the dispossessed need a voice, not least because there are talented people among the dispossessed and if they are stuck at zero everyone suffers because we don't have access to their talents. It's bad use of resources. On the right its like 'no, we need the damn value hierarchies, we need to be grateful for our traditions and structures because they stop us from degenerating into chaos.'"
JAPANESE POST-WAR DESIGN
LINK : https://www.disegnodaily.com/article/the-story-of-design-japanese-post-war-design
QOTE : "The average person lives about 75 years. Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and came up with 3,900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in his lifetime. It took me until I was 55 years old to think about this in any detail, and by that time I had lived through over 2,800 Saturdays.", "Now let me tell you one last thought before I sign off and take my lovely wife out to breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday, then I have been given a little extra time."
DATE : 12018-07-08
TAGS : philosophy
WIDSOM CALENDAR
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://a-calendar-of-wisdom.blogspot.com/
TYPE : article
QOTE : "You can read it online, it’s 'not that great' — I pointed this out more like an example of tooling, rather than content."
DATE : 12018-07-08
SULLIVAN
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/sullivan.html
TYPE : article
SEEN : false
DATE : 12018-07-08
TASTE FOR MAKERS
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
TYPE : article
SEEN : false
DATE : 12018-07-08
TAGS : design
MIND THE GAP
PERS : neaoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html
TYPE : article
SEEN : false
DATE : 12018-07-08
TAGS : society, economics
PYTHON PARADOX
PERS : neaoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
TYPE : article
SEEN : false
DATE : 12018-07-08
TAGS : code, paradox
VANILLA JS
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://vanilla-js.com/
TYPE : article
SEEN : true
DATE : 12018-07-08
TAGS : funny
GREENSPACE
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/it-s-official-spending-time-outside-is-good-for-you
TYPE : article
TERM : greenspace
SEEN : true
DATE : 12018-07-08
TAGS : psychology, economics, env
CLIENT SIDE ROUTING
PERS : james
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/deep-dive-into-client-side-routing-navigo-pushstate-hash
TYPE : article
SEEN : false
DATE : 12018-07-09
TAGS : web
METHOD OF LOCI
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
TERM : 'Horseshit problem' - a problem that seems existentially bad but is later solved indirectly by technology. The name refers to horse manue starting to be a major problem when horses were extensively used for transport their manure was everywhere and poisoning water etc. When the cars were invented and mass adopted it was suddenly not an issue.
LINK : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7DmA3yWwa6AT5jFXt/zombies-redacted
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-15
SEEN : false
TAGS : philosophy
TERM : 'Zombie' - 'in the philosophical usage of the term, is putatively a being that is exactly like you in every respect—identical behavior, identical speech, identical brain; every atom and quark in exactly the same position, moving according to the same causal laws of motion—except that your zombie is not conscious.'
KREMLIN MEDIA
LINK : https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/08/13/this-is-how-russian-internet-censorship-works
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-15
SEEN : false
TAGS : politics
FILE : 12018-07-15_KremlinMedia.pdf
FUNDAMENTAL MISCONCEPTIONS
LINK : http://mwil.co/articles/03/
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-15
SEEN : false
TAGS : bitcoin
FILE : 12018-07-15_FundamentalMisconceptions.pdf
CALENDAR REFORM
LINK : http://myweb.ecu.edu/mccartyr/eastman.html
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-15
SEEN : false
TAGS : time
NON EUCLIDEAN ROOM
LINK : http://ludumdare.com/compo/2016/12/23/non-euclidean-room-postmortem/
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-15
SEEN : false
TAGS : gamedev
FILE : 12018-07-15_NonEuclideanRoom.pdf
SAN JUAN ISLANDS
LINK : https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/Chapter_1_--_Introduction,_San_Juan_Islands.html
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-15
SEEN : false
FILE : 12018-07-15_SanJuanIslands.pdf
PROGRAMMERS KNOW FEELINGS
LINK : https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/good-programmers-know-more-about-feelings-than-computers-fa19f62495ae
